Gourmet Pie & Cafe in Los Alamitos is a great new reasonable and delicious local OC breakfast spot ( 5350 Katella Ave, Los Alamitos, CA 90720). I second the Shorehouse Cafe as a good breakfast place - both the Main Street, HB and PCH, Seal Beach locations.

Chicken fried steak, country ham, homemade bisquits, grits, bacon, you name it, they got it. They have a web page, just look up Johnny Reb's. They all have peanut shells on the floor, look like a shanty inside, some of them on the outside too. The best servers in town. You gotta go there. There's one in Orange.